Embroidery Stitch Video Tutorial: Backstitch
Another simple hand-embroidery stitch, the backstitch is useful in many applications. It's commonly seen in counted-thread embroidery, like counted cross stitch, but it's also used often in free-style surface embroidery. Below, you'll find a video tutorial for this stitch.
You can use backstitch to make bold lines or delicate lines, depending on the fabric, thread, and needle you decide to use. There are several variations of backstitch, including the whipped backstitch and Holbein stitch (or running backstitch). You can find more detailed written instructions on this stitch here.
Here's the video:
For more video tutorials on simple embroidery stitches, please visit the Video Library of Stitches.
You can use backstitch to make bold lines or delicate lines, depending on the fabric, thread, and needle you decide to use. There are several variations of backstitch, including the whipped backstitch and Holbein stitch (or running backstitch). You can find more detailed written instructions on this stitch here.
Here's the video:
For more video tutorials on simple embroidery stitches, please visit the Video Library of Stitches.
Labels: beginner embroidery, video tutorials
Posted By: Mary Corbet on Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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Mary, Your videos and descriptions are great. Thank you for making them available. I'm teaching a young person basic embroidery and finding your videos so helpful. Have linked to your videos in my blog article on making a puppet. with great appreciation, Jane
Thank you so much for these videos! They're so nice. I wasn't sure how written descriptions on other sites were going to help me learn very easily. And, thank you for starting with the basic stitches...
Thanks again.
I love these little videos. They are so helpful for a beginner like me. I hope this website stays put for a long time while I learn to stitch. Thanks so much.
That was so helpful. I could not figure it out till I say it done.
A self-taught (teaching, actually!) newbie here. Thank you so much for these videos! Reading stitch descriptions was not helping very much - seeing it done is an immense help. I appreciate your site so much!
Thatnk you so much for these videos! They're great and extremely helpful.
The videos are helpful; thanks. I actually know how to do basic embroidery, but am always looking for tips and additional teaching. I wonder if in the next set of videos. if you could also give us some tips about navigating smooth curves. Again, thanks much.
Nice video thank you
Please, please, please don't ever get rid of this site, or your videos. Since finding it, your site has been my best and most favorite resource for teaching myself how to hand stitch, and I can't imagine what I'd do without it. I watch the tutorials over and over, while trying them myself, and it makes it much easier to understand than written instructions, which I can't grasp for the life of me. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Thank you so much for the greatest tool a newbie could ever ask for.
great video
simple and effective
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Thank you so much for your awesome videos! I cannot tell you how many books I've read and tried to follow with no success. Your videos are so easy to follow and have helped me tremendously. You're the best!
Thanks for videos. They will help my students when doing their first stitches. Well done. I teach 11-15 year old pupils and at home they can use the website if they get stuck. Marvellous!
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Carmen
These videos are SO much more helpful when doing a stitch you've never done before or just checking to make sure you're getting it right the first try! Can't do that with written instructions or still photos or drawings. Keep up the GREAT work with these videos! WONDERFUL web site!
I tried to teach myself how to make a French knot using so many instructions with illustrations in books, to no avail. My elderly neighbor tried to show me, but her memory failed her. Now, after watching your tutorial, I have finally mastered this stitch! Thanks so much.
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